(Photo by Cory Wilson)
The 13th D.U.M.B.O. ART UNDER THE BRIDGE FESTIVAL® sponsored by The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) will be held from September 25 – 27, 2009. The arts featival draws 100,000+ visitors to Dumbo each year. From DAC:
Art Under the Bridge is a multi-site happening unique to Dumbo since 1997, the historic post-industrial neighborhood spanning the East River waterfront between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. The event’s enduring magic is the transformation of an entire neighborhood into a vibrant platform for self-expression over 3 days once a year. New artworks by young visual artists are created on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere: they may be specific to a particular site or they may wander. They may be projected or afloat. They may be performed or make sound, they may glow in the dark or ride an elevator, they may occupy a corporate lobby or beg your interaction, or they may just sit there and demand your attention.
In essence, you experience the visual arts while discovering Dumbo and experience Dumbo while finding the art: your map will take you to facades, streets, sidewalks, storefronts, elevators, lobbies, water, waterfront, parks, nooks, crannnies, aboard the NY Water Taxi, and more. Art Under the Bridge celebrates the untamed, art that deliberately breaks the white cube, art that is touchable, accessible and interactive. And in addition to the 60+ new outdoor projects, you can visit over 100 local open studios as well as video_dumbo, a non-stop indoor program of cutting edge video art from NYC and around the world. The appeal is universal: for many of the anticipated 100,000 visitors, Art Under the Bridge is their first encounter with art and artists. What’s more: it’s FREE, inclusive and open to all.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the Festival’s exclusive producer since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations. Art Under the Bridge is where serendipity and the haphazard thrive, where the unpredictable, the spontaneous and the downright weird can still happen – all against the stunning backdrop of iconic architecture and the Manhattan skyline.
To see pics from last year’s event, go to the DAC Flickr gallery. Also follow them on Twitter at twitter.com/DUMBOfestival.
More details at: dumboartfestival.org
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July 21st, 2009 at 12:27 am
Went last year and it was great. I’ll definitely be attending again this year!
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Sad that artist have to pay to play.
August 24th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
[...] According to people interviewed, Rabbit Movers could be making a lot more money, but the business allows him to be “an unlikely patron of the Brooklyn art scene, content to set aside his own writing, for the time being, to provide a valuable platform for others.” It’s nice to see a platform such as Rabbit Movers and Rabbithole Studio be in Dumbo that empowers and highlights emerging artists. They are currently calling for entries (due September 1, 2009) for the Fall Emerging Artists 2009 show that starts on September 24, 2009 during the 2009 Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival. [...]
August 25th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
[...] According to people interviewed, Rabbit Movers could be making a lot more money, but the business allows him to be “an unlikely patron of the Brooklyn art scene, content to set aside his own writing, for the time being, to provide a valuable platform for others.” It’s nice to see a platform such as Rabbit Movers and Rabbithole Studio be in Dumbo that empowers and highlights emerging artists. They are currently calling for entries (due September 1, 2009) for the Fall Emerging Artists 2009 show that starts on September 24, 2009 during the 2009 Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival. [...]
September 24th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Sad that artist have to pay to play.
September 24th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Sweet Electra @ Hecho en Dumbo
This is free!
Sweet electra has release their third album, “When We Abandoned Earth.” Nardiz and Giovanni have been crafting the songs for a year now—a year full of emotional, memorable experiences. The album is nostalgic. It's dramatic. It's spacey dreamy orchestral pop.
9:30pm
Saturday 26th
111 Front st
September 24th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Sweet Electra @ Hecho en Dumbo
This is free!
Sweet electra has release their third album, “When We Abandoned Earth.” Nardiz and Giovanni have been crafting the songs for a year now—a year full of emotional, memorable experiences. The album is nostalgic. It's dramatic. It's spacey dreamy orchestral pop.
9:30pm
Saturday 26th
111 Front st